The phrase, “My servant,” presents a problem for the trinitarian doctrine: servant and master are two separate entities. A servant by definition is always in an inferior position to his master. John’s Jesus acknowledges: “A slave is not greater than his master, neither one who is sent greater than the one who sent him

Behold, My servant shall prosper, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.
According as many were appalled at you–so marred was his appearance unlike that of a man, and his form unlike that of the sons of men.

The Jewish interpretation of Isaiah 53 maintains that the suffering servant of Israel suffered because of the persecutions by the Gentile nations. I understand that the nations overdid it when persecuting Israel but didn’t Israel suffer primarily because of its own sins? Read on to find out.

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Is it true (as Christians claim) that Jews at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple believed that Isaiah 53 spoke of a suffering messiah who was to die as an atonement for the sins of others and then be resurrected? Let’s find out.